How to enjoy Britain on the cheap
Free museums
Admission to Britain's great collections - from the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert, the Science and Natural History museums to the smaller Theatre Museum in Covent Garden - is now free. Admission is also gratis to the capital's big art galleries: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery among them. Outside the capital, the story is the same at the National Railway Museum, York; the Burrell Collection and Glasgow's other magnificent museums; the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Newcastle - all among the best museums of their kind, and all free.
Liverpool, the fascinating port-city in North-West England (to be European Capital of Culture in 2008) has modern art at the Tate Liverpool, and maritime history (including details of the slave trade and emigrants who set sail for the New World from here) at the Merseyside Maritime Museum: both are free.
To the east, Manchester has a stylish new arts centre, the Lowry in Salford, its theatres and galleries provide a year-round schedule of special events - many of them free. Its new Imperial War Museum, housed in a landmark aluminium-clad building by Daniel Libeskind, is also free.
Visit the museum finder for a full listing of UK museums.
Moment of fame
If you love your celebrity gossip and are a TV addict, why not take your hobby one step further? Rather than simply watching it, you can actually appear on the small screen - for free. Many of your favourite TV shows want people to come along as part of their studio audience. It's a fun day out and a great way to satisfy your lust for fame!
For more information on how to get your five-minutes of fame, visit www.freeukstuff.com
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